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Attorney General's first press conference October 08, 2015

Criminal justice system improvement project to kick-off next month

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Published: 15 September 2015

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015 | BY KNEWS | FILED UNDER NEWS

…Magistrates, prosecutors and investigators up for training

In direct response to rate of prosecutions and the challenges plaguing the judiciary, representatives of a Canada-based non governmental organisation, Justice Education Society (JES), are pushing to kick off a project next month, to improve the local justice system from the ground up.

Court has no authority to proceed on motion challenging Technocrat Ministers – AG

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Published: 08 August 2015

Minister of Legal Affairs and Attorney General, Basil Williams has noted that the High Court lacks the necessary jurisdiction to proceed on a motion filed by former Attorney General, Anil Nandlall, which challenges the Technocratic Status of two government ministers.

The motion, which was filed early July in the High Court by People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) candidate Desmond Morian, challenges the parliamentary status of the Minister within the Ministry of Communities, Keith Scott and Minister of Citizenship, Winston Felix and asserts that they do not fit the criteria of becoming parliamentarians.

According to GINA, Minister Williams explained to the Court that, 163 (1) (a) of the Guyana Constitution clearly establishes that for the High Court to hear such a proceeding it must be brought before the Court by way of an election petition rather than a motion.

MINISTER of Legal Affairs and Attorney General, Mr. Basil Williams, on a programme aired on the National Communications Network, said the Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry was nothing but “a political witch hunt” of the former Administration, which backfired on them. Minister Williams explained that the Peoples’ Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) had a political gambit which failed. First of all, they lied about Ms. Rodney’s contacting [former President Donald Ramotar], asking for such an inquiry to be held into the death of Walter Rodney…She never requested such an Inquiry…rather we learnt that she received a call purportedly from someone alleging they were from the Office of the President, informing her of the Commission being formed.”

In response to the opposition PPP/C’s challenge to APNU+AFC technocrat ministers Winston Felix and Keith Scott sitting in the National Assembly, Attorney General (AG) Basil Williams has argued that the High Court has no jurisdiction to hear the matter which was filed by motion and not by an election petition. Williams premised his submissions on the basis that the opposition’s application for redress on the issue by way of a motion before the court, is an affront to strict statutory provisions, which he says clearly provides for such matters to be ventilated via an election petition.